Sentence examples for strike grows from inspiring English sources

"The hunger strike grows for two reasons: the military's refusal to negotiate with the men in a productive way and because the president has taken no action in spite of his words," said Carlos Warner, a lawyer who represents several of the detainees on strike.

The strike grows in size as other trade unions join it, along with Tracy in an attempt to join the common man.

PETER J. HENNING STRIKE GROWS A small strike at a US Foods plant in Streator, Ill., which began on Sunday, has spread to other cities in recent days, causing disruptions at the private equity-owned food distribution giant.

Warren Hoge (NYT) NORWAY: STRIKE GROWS -- The national strike that has idled 85,000 workers, set off widespread hoarding and crippled a broad range of consumer businesses, tourism services and public utilities will be expanded to include 10,000 more people and affect new areas like forestry, the union confederation said.

The support that some parents seemed to show for the union appears to have been cultivated over a period of months as the possibility of a strike grew.

He noted that restaurant business in the southeast San Fernando Valley — home to Universal Studios and the largest concentration of production — has already dropped 30percentt as anticipation of the strike grew in recent weeks.

There are more than a dozen other missions: the latest, named after Simón Bolívar's nanny, is intended to look after street children, drug addicts and the homeless.Thanks largely to the ever-expanding oil windfall and a huge increase in public spending, the economy recovered strongly from the strike, growing 18% in 2004 and almost 10% last year.

But as the strike grew older, player attendance and perhaps interest decreased.

Either way, if the strike grew to a full nationwide walkout, as union officials suggested it could, it had the potential to affect 64percentt of all oil produced in the United States.

"The place is shut down". Mikhail I. Shchadov, the coal minister, spoke to tens of thousands of miners in an evening rally in Prokopyevsk on Saturday, but afterward the strike grew as miners demanded that more senior officials come to negotiate with them.

So the government may just about tolerate one or two days of co-ordinated industrial action, but if the momentum behind wider and longer strikes grows, the full might of the media will undoubtedly be employed to swing public opinion firmly against the unions.